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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 24, 2023 14:56:50 GMT -5
I've gone rifle hunting with no bullets AND bowhunting without my quiver of arrows.
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 12, 2023 12:23:14 GMT -5
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. As she passes the bus driver he says, “whoah!, that’s got to be the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen!” The woman walks to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her, “The driver just gave me the worst insult!” The man says, “You just go right up there and tell him off". The woman says, "Really, should I?" The man says, "Darn right, now go on, I’ll watch your monkey.” My wife said to the Gym instructor “Can you teach me to do the splits?” He said, “How flexible are you?” She said, “I can make any day but Tuesdays.” A guy says to his doctor, "Doc, I can’t stop singing the songs ‘Delilah’ and "What's New cat". The doctor replied, “Hmmm.....sounds like you might have Tom Jones syndrome.” The guy says, “I've never heard of it, is it a rare disorder?". The doctor replied, “It’s not unusual". I decided to go on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already. My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We’ll just see about that. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. “But why?” they asked, as they moved off. “because,” he said “I can’t stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.”
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 11, 2023 12:32:44 GMT -5
When I was a kid back in NH, we'd icefish on a small pond. The action was usually pretty fast, and before too long we'd have dead shiners laying on the ice at every hole. Once when I was tending to a tip-up, my buddy called to me saying, "Something black is coming out from the woods toward you." I figured he was joking but I turned around and there about 15 feet away was a mink. Had never seen one before, but I knew what it was. I tossed him the live shiner in my hands. He grabbed it quick and went back to the woods. I figured the fun was over and re-set the line. I walked back to my buddy and as we sat there jigging and watching for flags, that mink kept coming back out, checking from hole to hole for more shiners. He ate good that day. We fished there quite a bit and we didn't see him every time, but did see him more than once. They're pretty cool critters, until they want to eat something you'd rather they didn't.
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 6, 2023 13:54:07 GMT -5
45/70 with cases cut to 1.8", 300 grain Barnes TSX.
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 5, 2023 12:27:27 GMT -5
Father: Son, I guess I need to tell you this. You were adopted.
Son: I knew it! I want to meet my biological parents!
Father: No son, we are your biological parents. Your new parents will be here in 20 minutes to pick you up.
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 5, 2023 6:42:01 GMT -5
A buddhist monk walks up to a hotdog stand and says, "Make me one with everything".
Same monk is making his morning toast. He opens the margarine tub, and there in the margarine and crumbs he clearly sees the face of Jesus. He says, "I can't believe it's not Buddha".
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 3, 2023 13:34:58 GMT -5
Tomatoes are about done. I'm picking summer squash and zucchini as I planted them after I took out my cukes. Still have eggplant, chilis and green onions in the garden.
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 3, 2023 12:01:19 GMT -5
I made a wild turkey salad and brought it to work yesterday. I used two breasts and two thighs from a hen that a friend shot last fall. Wrapped all the meat with bacon and smoked until just done.
I cut everything fine, so it's almost like a spread as opposed to a chunky salad. We ate it on saltine crackers. My recipe includes a good shot of cider vingear as well as chili peppers. Had a good bite to it.
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Post by oldhoyt on Sept 22, 2023 6:40:18 GMT -5
A buddy just ordered a Rock Island Armory 12 Ga pump shotgun from RK Guns. They call is a compact model, but I've had good luck with the fit of compact or "youth" guns once the hunting clothes are factored in. Anyway, 3" chamber and it comes with a deer barrel (not sure exactly, but most likley smooth, cylinder bore) AND a field barrel with 3 choke tubes. All for the low, low proce of $150. Figured I'd pass the word along in case someone out there needs a shotgun (who doesn't?).
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 25, 2023 9:42:45 GMT -5
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used. So, why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that same wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. And what about the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or run the risk of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's as* came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' as*es.) Now, the twist to the story: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's as*. And you thought being a horse's as* wasn't important? Ancient horse's as*es control almost everything.
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 15, 2023 15:31:17 GMT -5
The later dates are tough IMO, gotta embrace archery to be guaranteed the best part of the rut. I may have had my hand forced into archery. I'm not as concerned about full rut activities as I am the timing with Thanksgiving for me. Just a bad set of dates for me personally. If you have any concerns about practicing and proficiency, buy a crossbow.
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 15, 2023 10:12:28 GMT -5
A friend of mine got kidnapped by mimes.
They did unspeakable things to him.
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 15, 2023 10:11:20 GMT -5
I saw a homeless man & I asked him if I gave him $20 would you buy booze?
He said no he quit drinking years ago. Then I said if I give you $20 will you buy fishing or hunting gear? He again said no, he quit fishing and hunting 5 years ago.
So then I said I'll do you better than $20. I'll take you home so you can get cleaned up. My wife will cook a fantastic meal for you. Then I'll bring you back here & give you $40.
He asked me why I wanted to go to all that trouble.
I said I just want my wife to see what happens to a man when he quits drinking, fishing and hunting!
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 11, 2023 11:13:14 GMT -5
A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar. Bartender says, "What is this? Some kind of joke?"
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep, just like my grandfather did. Not frantically screaming like the other people in his car.
Police have confirmed that the man who passed away after falling from a nightclub roof was not a bouncer.
Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar. You can't tell me that's just a coincidence.
Yesterday I couldn't tell if someone was waving to me or the guy behind me. I lost my job as a life guard shortly after.
My wife accused me of stealing her thesaurus. Not only was I shocked, I was appalled, aghast and dismayed.
My wife asked if I'd seen the dog bowl. I said "I had no idea he could".
I explained to my wife the importance of embracing one's mistakes. Then I hugged her.
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 7, 2023 8:38:45 GMT -5
My pickling cukes were still producing like crazy, but I made all the pickles we can eat (5 gallons sunshine pickles, 4 gallons sour dill, 2 gallons bread and butter and one gallon dill chips). Last week I pulled the vines and planted summer squash in their place.
Been getting a steady stream of tomatoes, picked a good batch of romas and made 24 half-pints of pizza sauce over the weekend.
Been pulling green onions as needed for recipes, need to look into preserving some.
Strange year for all of my pepper varieties, but they seem to be getting it in gear.
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 1, 2023 9:15:36 GMT -5
I have a Marlin Model 1895SS in 45/70. Most recently I've used it in Michigan, with cases cut to 1.8" and a 300 grain Barnes TSX. Most of my full length case loads were with 300 or 350 grain Hornady Interlock bullets. I never chronographed any of the loads, but according to published data, they were right around 2000 fps.
I'm looking forward to your range reports to see how your Henry shoots and what loads it likes best.
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Post by oldhoyt on Jul 31, 2023 13:36:36 GMT -5
Catman built a cart for this purpose, not sure how well it actually worked. Probably OK on fairly level ground and trails.
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Post by oldhoyt on Jul 25, 2023 9:53:04 GMT -5
Turned him into a good coyote for sure.
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Post by oldhoyt on Jul 20, 2023 7:14:14 GMT -5
We just got one here in the south Bend area. Have not been in,, but I hear it's expensive.
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Post by oldhoyt on Jul 20, 2023 7:12:46 GMT -5
I see you've got your period. That's good, cause you know what a missed period can mean.
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